diff --git a/components/net/connector.rs b/components/net/connector.rs
index dccc4d7547c..058a27c47d6 100644
--- a/components/net/connector.rs
+++ b/components/net/connector.rs
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ const TLS1_2_CIPHERSUITES: &'static str = concat!(
     "ECDHE-ECDSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305:ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305:",
     "ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:",
     "ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:",
-    "ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA"
+    "ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA@SECLEVEL=2"
 );
 const SIGNATURE_ALGORITHMS: &'static str = concat!(
     "ed448:ed25519:",